Jupiter casting thunderbolts from the sky. Engraving by M. Küsel after S. Vouet.

Augsburg : Melchior Küsell ex, [before 1683]

1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 25 x 19.6 cm

Flammanti e solio vibras quos Jupiter ignes / Excipiant Aquilae, sed nos haec fulmina terrent. Sim. Vouet pinx. ; Melchior Küsell ex. Augsburg Translation of lettering: The fires which, Jupiter, you shake from your flaming throne, the eagles may carry them off, but these thunderbolts terrify us

Wellcome Collection 2815029i

After a painting by Vouet at Fontainebleau, probably via an engraving by Michel Dorigny, 1645

One work in a series representing the four elements, this one representing fire